FIRESIGN THEATRE - Phil Austin, Peter Bergman, Phil Proctor and David Ossman - is a conversation. It's a talk radio brain broadcast. The conversation started as a radio phenomenon. Radio enabled the FIRESIGN in the late 60's and now radio has re-signaled the group in the late 90s. It just won't go away, like the radio beams bouncing back at us from the stars. The signal gets interrupted once in a while due to technical difficulties, sometimes filled with everyday static that drowns out the conversation, and the station occasionally goes off the air for periods of time, but the beat goes on.

The phoenix rising from the ashes of burnt out antennae is currently a talking bird soaring magnetically from reconfigured transmitters and is taking full flight in the ethers of public and private stations across the land. In recognition of the 30 year anniversary of this elocutionist experimental broadcast, the FIRESIGN THEATRE has released a major collective survey of their radio highflights, The Pink Hotel Burns Down, recorded a prophetic New Year's segment Everything You Know Is Wrong... About The Future for NPR, held an honorarium symposium at the Museum Of Televison And Radio in LA, sprang an April Fool's joke on hundreds of stations on the Radio Today Network and now is taking these ideas into the Internet conversational roundtable of e-mail and fax machines to write a brand new album for the millennial minded members of their gasping audience.

We're not going to bore you with a complete run down on FIRESIGN's entire career because this information has been covered in exhaustive detail elsewhere. But we are going explore some the important areas of their work through this and various other articles and try to shed light on some of the shadows they're back from. Firezine is proud to be a small part of this revival effort, so this issue is a 30th Anniversary celebration, a tribute and expose' to guide us moths to the light of their flickering flame.